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I agree that the rebrand will probably go down as a poor rollout, but subjectively Twitter is the best it’s been in years right now.

Lots of replies from real people having interesting conversations.

I’m no fan of Elmo running the company, but I’m glad that Twitter is more fun for me now than it has been in 7 years.

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Twitter had that already. People just convinced themselves otherwise, mostly due to politically driven narratives, but it always had real people and interesting conversations.

Of course, if your bar for quality is "more shitposting, chaos and racism" then I can see how you might think Twitter has improved. I don't consider any of that interesting, though.

Don't worry. You can find your far-left echochamber on the fediverse.

I never said I wanted a "far left echo chamber". I'd prefer conversations with people who have matured intellectually and emotionally beyond adolescence, and are possessed of basic human decency. Unfortunately that's getting more and more difficult to find these days, even around here.

Your comments suggest you do.

You describe people who reject your radical woke leftist beliefs (let's not beat around the bush here) as "intellectually and emotionally adolescent" and lacking "basic human decency". Pot calling the kettle black.

Hard agree. Twitter used to be actively bad for me - the for you page is simply incredible, and dialogue on the platform enriches my life every day I use it. It's the first time in my experience I actually feel like a social network is a net positive to my life. Opening X (Twitter) genuinely gives me joy.

I also have a similar perception. It’s probably because all of the whiny people who used to fill up my feed have left, for Mastodon or otherwise.

However, I don’t find Twitter any more compelling than before, still way too much noise for what little signal you get.

The best Twitter was around 2009, when the timeline was linear, retweets were effortful, and you didn’t have to use the God-forsaken official client.

That's nice to hear - I didn't use Twitter in 2009!

As I've said earlier - the groupthink on HN is at astoundingly high levels nowadays. First everyone said subscriptions are the way to go. Seriously - this was unanimous. And absolutely everyone on HN would complain about their linear timeline being taken away.

Now that Elon has bought the company, he's introduced a (good) subscription based product (while simultaneously keeping free access), and he's reintroduced the linear timeline. And HN can't seem to stop whining.

Honestly considering leaving this site - I can't seem to find any genuine debates any more. Not that it has anything to do with HN - what do I know, this perception of HN of mine might just be me seeing the platform through heavy bias. But the perception is there.

It sucks the rest of the internet has to deal with the fallout though. I hope that Mastodon contains them for the rest of eternity

2009 Twitter was a special time on the internet, for sure.

Gotta love those unblockable neonazis.

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